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Harris v. State’s Empirical Analysis

2008

Citation profile

18
cited by 18 later decisions
1
states following
April 2024
most recently cited

18 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently April 2024

18 state decisions

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Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.

Relationships

Relies on Gleason v. State · Dysthe v. State · Gayler v. State · Burton v. State · Dice v. State

Most-quoted passages

The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “Admissibility under W.R.E. 404(b) is not limited to the purposes set forth in the rule, and we have adopted a liberal approach toward admitting uncharged misconduct evidence.”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “In reviewing a _ claim of prosecutorial misconduct in closing argument, the eourt looks at the entire record to determine whether the defendant’s ease was so prejudiced by the improper comments as to result in the denial' of a fair trial. Capshaw v. State, 10 P.3d 560, 567 (Wyo. 2000); Metzger v. State, 4 P.3d 901, 910 (Wyo. 2000). The challenged comments are judged in the context of the prosecutor’s entire argument, considering the context of the statements and comparing them with the evidence produced at the trial. Helm v. State, 1 P.3d 635, 639 (Wyo. 2000). ... When an objection is launched to a statement made in closing argument, we defer to the trial court’s ruling in the absence of a clear or patent abuse of discretion. Gayler v. State, 957 P.2d 855, 860 (Wyo. 1998).”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
  3. “If the trial court abused it's discretion by allowing impermissible argument, we will only reverse if 'a reasonable probability exists, absent the error, that the appellant may have enjoyed a more favorable verdiet.'”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

How this case has been treated — in progress

Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.